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written on Thursday, June 25, 2015 @ 11:31 PM ✈
I have a massive headache and feel really "sick" (but I'm not sick) even though I've finished exams. What the hell body, what the hell. Everything hurts so bad right now T_T 0 comment[s] | back to topwritten on Wednesday, June 24, 2015 @ 10:28 PM ✈
Fuarrr my studying today achieved basically nothing cause nothing sticks anymore and my brain has given out. If it were possible to get our scores back on the test alone I'd definitely be under average. The reason I always dislike science is because I feel like it's a lot of "pointless remembering" because there is no real understanding involved unless you memorise all the concepts...... I don't think I'm making sense anymore. Anyway my friends excel at the memorising thing so I think they're going to have a field day tomorrow. Past papers are lame as, I don't understand how questions like this fully demonstrate the extent of what you learn when all they do is pick and choose probably the smallest aspect ever:  0 comment[s] | back to topHaa....
written on Tuesday, June 23, 2015 @ 11:53 PM ✈
The exam was really no joke. First question was something the me of last year wouldn't have even batted an eye at and yet I made such a rookie mistake and didn't transform something and wasted a heap of time going back and redoing my analysis == I'm seriously weak when they dig up things from last year. And then the other question. WHAT KIND OF TROLL WROTE THAT ONE. When you first read the question you know there's two possible ways of analysing it and then when you get to the end you go "oh okay with this kind of data and experiment it's Poisson distribution" so you run your analysis and write what the results of it are AND THEN!!!!! The last part of the question says "oh but then you changed the experiment and now decide to count this so RE-DO THE ANALYSIS"!!!!! So in the end to answer the question satisfactorily you end up doing 2x the normal amount of working than you need since you have to analyse it both ways and show the working == Way to hit hard, Poisson AND binomial wow. Usually it's just one or the other but nope, not today. By the way the pain is so real. I can't even tell you how badly my eyes and the associated face muscles/tissues or whatever hurt after those 3 hours. In fact I was pretty much squinting at the screen for most of the last hour. It's almost midnight and my eyes still hurt. Also during the exam I got a killer headache too (y) Everyone was madly flipping through their manual. I laugh cause the exam supervisors offered us earplugs cause there was some construction work going on outside. Oh and I had fun spending the last 5 mins of the exam speed typing the questions onto a word document and saving it onto my USB hehe. Cause the question sheet is hard copy (and we have to hand it in when we leave) but we do our analysis on the computer and submit it. It'll make for good revision for next year I guess..... so I better keep these exam questions handy ha... Ugh and in true fashion of "whatever subject is last, is screwed", I'm doomed for repro on Thursday. Just too much content and my brain has already given out pretty much. Cramming ain't going to work. 0 comment[s] | back to topAh.... /sigh/
written on Monday, June 22, 2015 @ 11:47 PM ✈
So....... usually I like stats since out of the 8 subjects per year it's the only one that's not /purely/ science. It's a nice break. Especially since 8 of the 12 weeks is actual stats, and the last 4 weeks is algebra and requires minimal study (ah that stuff was good). BUT
It all changed this year (T⌓T) This year
there is no algebra to save me and it was 12 weeks of stats. To top it off, there
is no longer any theory exams and everything is purely on the computer. Why?
Because the stuff became that complex you can no longer analyse the data by
hand. So...... I'm totally gonna have fun in tomorrow's 3 hour computer final.
Going to be so blind afterwards. Exam worth 40% and the other 60% came from 6 x
10% assessable exercises.
Also I hate to say this but....... this is the year I'm going
to lose my HD streak in stats sigh ಥ_ಥ Lost too
many marks already from assessable exercises and unless I get 90% tomorrow HD
is out of the picture. I miss the last two years of stats where I got 95-100% in the prac
midsems :/ (Never knew what I got in the theory finals though since they never
give those back).
Anyway this year I had an epiphany of why stats is so hard. I
really don't think people understand. I think maths is pretty straight forward
most (most!) of the time since it's like do "THIS." But
with stats it's not maths..... it's literally half maths and half
English....... and playing detective. First you read this deceivingly short
paragraph and you think "oh yeah, seems simple okay" and then you
realise your working out takes like 5 microsoft word pages > >
And you have to hope you picked the right model otherwise
your analysis is moot. And after looking at all the figures the last part which
is my utter weak point is saying what those numbers MEAN. Here's just the
quickest example I could find from our work:
"The key, regardless of the complexity of the spline, is that there
appears to be a couple of points of inflection around the 1000 and 4000
feet depths and this probably reflects the light penetration into the
water and/or the fact that different species of phytoplankton can live in
different light levels and depths but most are concentrated at the
surface."
Like.
What. Is. THIS??
I kid
you not there is nothing about thinking about light penetration and species of
phytoplankton in the actual question, the only data we got was
"depth" and "chlorophyll concentration." Fuarrr my mind
does not expand out of the box that far.
For me, the death words in statistics is:
"transform" "not normal data" "logit" "on the backtransformed scale" (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ 0 comment[s] | back to topHe's........... He's BACK !!!!!
written on Monday, June 15, 2015 @ 11:46 PM ✈
I had such a weird dream... someone got me really angry in it that I stretched out my arm to grab them by the collar (as you see on TV) and I ended up waking up just as I was doing it so it was like I was punching the air....
Well anyway it's funny because recently I've been thinking how different life is now that I don't eagerly anticipate a new chapter of Naruto every Thursday.... The anime is still running but it's just of the finished storyline in the manga so I still feel a little empty and I can't say I'm used to this life. But then...
THIS HAPPENED AND NOBODY TOLD ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When the series finished they did say something was coming in the Spring (Japan spring mind you) but spring is 3 months so......... I didn't know it came out in April I mean what the hell I've been missing out for 2 months!!!!!!!!!! TWO MONTHS of pointless no-Naruto suffering.
And yeah it's about the next generation but I don't care because Naruto is still in it and the storyline lives on. And mostly important I've got something to look forward to every Thursday now (╥﹏╥) I've missed this life so much. Also look at how Naruto is still number one on this site and Naruto Gaiden (the new one) is number two. Naruto > Bleach and One Piece forever.
0 comment[s] | back to topもうOK
written on Thursday, June 11, 2015 @ 11:24 PM ✈
A year ago from today I wasn't in too good of a place. Looking back on it now I find it pitiful. Why did I have to put myself down and lie just to make you happy? But I'd like to think things are different now (well you'd hope so). Maybe I've been able to grow up a little since that time? I won't belittle myself anymore. But I don't give you much thought anymore either so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's better things to be concerned about
0 comment[s] | back to topwritten on Thursday, June 4, 2015 @ 11:55 PM ✈
Ugh almost midnight and I'm currently sitting on only 500/1000 words for an essay due tomorrow (Friday) 5pm though I have to leave for work at 4pm. Though truthfully 90% of it is waffle. Also before you say anything I didn't start earlier since we had a butt tonne of other assignments (including sitting through 4 hours of presentations today) and also the essay question we were given is vague as (I don't think you can even call it a question). Anyway I'm just so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ right now 0 comment[s] | back to topwritten on Monday, June 1, 2015 @ 11:07 PM ✈
Ewww it's officially winter meaning the next three months will be cold and uncomfortable as. Even though it was already like that for the past 1.5 to 2 months. And that wasn't even winter. Ugh :( 0 comment[s] | back to top |